SAS Portal and BI Dashboard: Customizing the Tabs

You can customize the SAS Portal and SAS BI Dashboard Web Browser titles in just a few moments. Here’s another branding trick that Kushal Ramani sent to me. He also sent some these branding tricks for Web Report Studio and SAS Portal. For this example, you are updating the tab associated with the tool. I used the word “Fancy” in all of these so I could easily see the changes.

Updating the JSP Files

Note: I’m using JBoss installed on a Windows7 server with my SAS BI 9.3 installation. All of my paths are based on that environment. Contact SAS Technical Support if you need help locating the files associated with other environments.

To make changes to the browser tab, you need to update the associated JavaServer Pages (JSP) files that are found in the JBoss directory. For this example, let’s change the SAS BI Dashboard tab. We will change the one that appears when the BI Dashboard appears and not the one use when you are editing the dashboard. If you do not have access to the server, you may need to enlist your SAS Administrator’s help. Also – this does change it for everyone.

Stop the Web Application Server (JBoss) from the Windows Services.

Navigate to the C:\jboss-4.2.3.GA\server\SASServer1\deploy_sas directory.

Here’s the path and file you need change based on what you want to do:

Tricia Aanderud is a SAS Business Intelligence and Visual Analytics consultant based in Raleigh, NC who works for Zencos Consulting. She has written several books about SAS, presented papers at many SAS conferences, and has been using SAS since 2001. Contact her for assistance with your next project.